homesign

homesign (countable and uncountable, plural homesigns)

1. Alternative form of home sign
   • 2002, Virginia Gutman, editor, Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness, Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

     Would it make any difference to you as a jury member if this was the only therapist with any sign skills within five hundred miles? A thousand miles? Does it make any difference to you that the client used homesigns rather than American Sign Language?

   • 2010, Gaurav Mathur, Donna Jo Napoli, editors, Deaf Around the World: The Impact of Language, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 131:

     The NSL signers told the story to a peer from the same cohort, and the homesigners told the story to a communication partner familiar with their homesign system. All of the narratives were videotaped for later analysis.